Editorials Feodor Georgiev in Editorials Data Security: Nowhere to Hide In my view, data security is an abstract concept, just as abstract as money, religion and fascination – all devised... 01 November 2018 3 min read
Data Privacy and Protection Robert Sheldon in Data Privacy and Protection SOX and Database Administration – Part 3 Database administrators are typically responsible for the security and availability of financial data. In this article, Robert Sheldon discusses SOX,... 24 October 2018 13 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Calculating a Security Principal’s Complete Effective Rights In my blog Calculating a Security Principal’s Effective Rights. I built a view, named Utilty.EffectiveSecurity that you could query to... 09 October 2018 8 min read
Data Privacy and Protection Robert Sheldon in Data Privacy and Protection HIPAA and Database Administration – Part 2 HIPAA was signed into law in the United States in 1996. In this article, Robert Sheldon discusses how the act... 09 October 2018 13 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Calculating a Security Principal’s Effective Rights Security. Oh that most painful of topics. I discussed it a few months earlier when I discussed the need to... 26 September 2018 9 min read
Data Privacy and Protection William Brewer in Data Privacy and Protection Fifty Different Ways to Enact Data Privacy Laws? Now that the GDPR has gone into effect, many are wondering what will happen in the United States. California is... 19 September 2018 13 min read
Data Privacy and Protection David Poole in Data Privacy and Protection Exhuming the GDPR Bodies Since the GDPR has gone into effect, the focus has often been on databases. There are many other ways that... 12 September 2018 20 min read
Editorials Kendra Little in Editorials Security, Compliance, Data Ethics, and Breaking the “Not My Job” Mindset Security, compliance, and data ethics are related concepts that everyone who works with software should know about, from the help... 30 August 2018 3 min read
Data Privacy and Protection Robert Sheldon in Data Privacy and Protection Introduction to HIPAA and SOX Despite the attention to data privacy and protection caused this year because of the GDPR, regulations governing how data is... 15 August 2018 12 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Spoofing Data Convincingly: Credit Cards I haven’t seen a SQL Server table with real unencrypted credit card numbers for several years, and I don’t know... 08 August 2018 8 min read
Data Privacy and Protection William Brewer in Data Privacy and Protection Information Security in Practice Along with the GDPR, regulations require that confidential data is protected and used properly. In this article, William Brewer discusses... 24 July 2018 13 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Spoofing Data Convincingly: Masking Continuous Variables. In any real numeric data from a database , you are only rarely going to see any sort of normal... 18 July 2018 8 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Spoofing Data Convincingly: Altering Table Data When you are developing an existing database, or demonstrating it, you nowadays need pseudonymised data, or even better, completely anonymized... 17 July 2018 9 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Spoofing Data Convincingly for Database Development. An Introduction Many times I’ve been told, by developers who are using live data to develop a database, that it is impossible... 12 July 2018 14 min read
Data Privacy and Protection William Brewer in Data Privacy and Protection How to be Accountable for Handling Personal Data The GDPR is in full effect but meeting the requirements may still be confusing for many companies. In this article,... 05 July 2018 16 min read
Data Privacy and Protection K. Brian Kelley in Data Privacy and Protection Principles of Data Protection Protecting data in SQL Server is not as simple as setting a few properties. While there are great security features... 26 June 2018 18 min read
Data Privacy and Protection K. Brian Kelley in Data Privacy and Protection Detecting Data Breaches Data breaches make the news on an almost daily basis. There is no turning back, however, as we are firmly... 12 June 2018 17 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Do We Really Care About Privacy? You may have noticed a recent flurry of activity in your email inbox as many companies sent out new privacy... 01 June 2018 3 min read
Data Privacy and Protection William Brewer in Data Privacy and Protection Data Governance, DevOps, and Delivery Data governance must be included in DevOps practices. William Brewer explains how to define business policies and standards to ensure... 31 May 2018 14 min read
Blogs Annette Allen in Blogs GDPR – What do we need to know? On 25th May GDPR comes into force. I’ve been learning everything I can about GDPR to ensure my systems adhere... 11 May 2018 1 min read
